A brilliant road map for discovering history, science, civilization, and the human condition, this engaging record recommends must-read books: those so revealing about times and places that they take the reader beyond day-to-day concerns into a magic realm of knowledge and imagination. From Arthur Koestler’s take on the universe and Barbara Tuchman’s view on 14th-century life to F. Scott Fitzgerald’s impressions of American morality and Robert Fisk’s analysis of the West’s history of intervention in the Middle East, this engaging account is an idiosyncratic and endlessly interesting tour of the world through literature.
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The Timelessness of Proust
$595 -
Critical Practice: Theorists and Creativity
$1,033 -
Body Language: Narrating Illness and Disability
$6,975 -
Hearing Voices: Aurality and New Spanish Sound Culture in Sor Juana Inés De La Cruz
$2,700 -
Starring Charles Dickens: Multi-media ’boz’ and the Culture of Celebrity
$2,248 -
Chicano Folklore: An A-Z of Beliefs, Rituals, Folktales, and More
$4,005 -
Comparative Literature in Britain: National Identities, Transnational Dynamics, 1800-2000
$5,400 -
Literature of the 1970’s: Things Fall Apart
$5,400 -
The Social Work of Narrative: Human Rights and the Cultural Imaginary
$2,250 -
Starring Charles Dickens: Multi-media ’boz’ and the Culture of Celebrity
$6,748 -
Textual Scholarship: An Introduction
$5,850 -
The Purple Decades: A Reader
$350 -
The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism
$10,350 -
The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland: Medieval to 1707
$6,840 -
Metamodernism: Historicity, Affect, and Depth After Postmodernism
$5,625 -
Edinburgh Companion to Scottish Traditional Literatures: Border Country
$5,400 -
Early Modern Travel and the Discourses of English Nationalism
$6,748 -
Trollope Underground
$6,750 -
The Canon
$4,950 -
The Language of Surrealism
$4,680